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Commission on Human Rights logo MANILA-The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday condemned a series of violations against the "right to life", vowing to conduct parallel investigations on these violent incidents. Executive director of the CHR, Jacqueline Ann de Guia, urged the Philippine National Police (PNP) to probe the cases of violence against human rights, such as "the recent spate of killings involving local officials, a political supporter, and the members of the vulnerable sectors." On Sunday, a supporter of the incumbent mayor of Dagupan - who was also a political aspirant reportedly running for barangay chairman in the coming local election - was gunned down by unidentified persons at the parking area of the cockpit arena in the Pangasinan Coliseum in Barangay San Miguel. On the same day, a village chief and two other persons survived another killing attempt outside the cockpit arena in Baggao town in Cagayan province. Recently, the CHR deployed a